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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Digeroo on February 21, 2018, 10:10:29
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The first few tiny stalks seem to taste the best. Zapped in microwave with apple juice and serve with a nice plain yoghurt. Lovely.
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That sounds really lovely :) but I have to refrain from picking mine, as I moved the roots to my new plot this winter *sulk*
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Mine are just pushing through the mulch. That on my neighbour's plot isn't even doing that yet.
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Just a little behind. 1st few stalks, Timperley Early on 24th Feb. Went really well with home made ice cream.
Have forcers on Timperley Early and Champagne. One of my favourites - have just put in 3 more varieties.
The cold spell seems to have slowed things down.
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Envious. No forced or fresh rhubarb round here yet.
I bought 3 crowns for this new garden and veg plot last spring but kept them in pots cos of the drought. Happily, they have survived winter and we have had a year's worth of rain in 2 months so yesterday I planted them out with lots of lovely rotted horse manure. They each have a few tiny, crinkled leaves but look well so maybe next year I'll get some to eat.
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Mine are also biding their time. I can see pink buds, but no stalks yet. :wave:
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My Timperley Early and Champagne crowns send up lots of flowering stalks which seems to affect the quantity and quality of leaves they produce. I cut the flower stems off - is this the right thing to do? Should I get rid of them? My other plants (unknown, vigorous variety) which are in the same bed do not send up flower stems at all.
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Cutting them off is the usual advice. And I usually do. But these flowers are so majestic and pretty that just occasionally I leave one. Leaving them is said to weaken the plant and stop further leaves. :wave:
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Flowering stems can be a sign that your rhubarb needs lifting and splitting or maybe just a huge dollop of manure next autumn.
When mine did it a few years ago - previous garden - I cut off the flowering stems early and gave them to some florist friends. Got agreat crop of edble stems and then divided the roots in autumn.